Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

The Crises of Democratic Capitalism

“‘The Fiscal Crisis of the State’ Revisited”

Wednesday, April 9, 4pm, 206 Ingraham

“Has Capitalism Seen Its Day?”

Thursday, April 10, 4pm, 8417 Social Science

Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public

Friday, April 11, 12 noon, 8146 Social Science

Co-sponsored by Global Studies and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy

A man looks directly into the camera. His short, dark brown hair and mustache are peppered with white. His eyeglasses are frameless and feature rectangular lenses. He wears a black button-down shirt and a dark gray suit jacket. He sits before a light green background.WOLFGANG STREECK is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, and Theodor Heuss professor at the New School for Social Research, New York. From 1988 to 1995 he was Professor of Sociology and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest publications include: Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus, Politics in the Age of Austerity, and Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change in the German Political Economy.